Pappnase

At some point Fragrance Dawg had the fragrance times praising mentioned, and the coincidence wanted that he was offered at the local flour producer cheap.
My first spray at home: Boah. Yes, fruity-sweet isser really, mywegen also synthetic, quite independent (as far as I can judge the small light). Which fruit should have stood there exactly godfather, since the fragrance pyramid does not help me. It doesn't matter. It smells delicious, round and enveloping. I wouldn't have expected this scent in this ferrari red, attractive in itself but rather technical-edged flacon. It lasts well, and the vibrancy can be smelled too. I have more expensive fragrances that perform worse. The only minus point is that the sprayer sometimes gets caught in the surrounding veneer.

It had started so well: I had bought Fruity Fragrances - Sweet Vanilla by Jean-Paul Grand at the local flour maker a while back, an absolute cheapo. For some occasions I love this nothing-but-vanilla fragrance, but the bottle with the charm of a urine sample makes me pantomime herpes.
And then I found a promising review of Vincenzo Barony - Exotic Vanilla, also from Village Cosmetics and also the associated vendor. I ordered. Should this be the fragrance I was looking for in a slightly more appealing guise? I do not know it unfortunately until today.
Because on Thursday, my favorite parcel messenger, a power woman tattooed to the hairline, brought the longed-for package. So begin beautiful days.
But then: the package torn open to unreproducibility, the OVP removed, the cap down, the sprayer operated and fortunately only sprayed into the air. What is that?
A look at the flacon: much darker than expected. No, there is nothing about furniture polish, nothing about shoe polish, but Barony Brazil - Vanilla. I had not ordered, definitely not.
So I complain. I had expected, given the low value of the goods, "We're sorry. We'll send you the fragrance you asked for. Keep this one."
But honestly, I wouldn't have known what to do with the brat. So I wasn't mad yet that they seriously wanted the stuff back. Get new box, print out return slip, repackage all the crap and take it to the Hermes shop. The 15 euros would be credited back to my credit card account and the new delivery would be sent to me on account immediately. Annoying, but it should be all right.
As if I suspected what was coming, I still pointed out: "It was already the right outer packaging, unfortunately, the wrong content. Look again purely with the replacement delivery."
Today on Monday morning, my neighbor rings. Already on Saturday, DHL had dropped the package at your place. No notice in my mailbox. It was anyone, but not my favorite parcel messenger.
This time I opened the package carefully, took out the bottle - again the same Mist Barony Brazil - Vanilla, the wrong bottle in the right packaging. Had I not explicitly pointed out and asked for control before shipping? This time, a phone complaint was due. "No, we can't open the boxes before shipping because then they are no longer OVP." I reply, "But they're not shrink-wrapped at all." I explain that I will not go through the trouble of returning the goods again. Yes, they will write off the invoice. I should keep the fragrance.
I ask that they finally deliver the fragrance I ordered. But no. Now they want to have shipping check the entire shipment. How to do that without opening the boxes? Specialists!
And so I think, give the fragrance another chance, will not get rid of him anyway and spray me cautiously two blasts of the Barony Brasil - Vanilla on the neck. A mistake: I stink like never before.
If he can do nothing: Durability and sillage are excruciatingly good. "And the emphasis is on" appalling. Shower, shave, aftershave, new shirt and a nice swish of Tabac Man - and the Brazilian furniture polish still resonates a bit. Good thing I don't have anything else planned today.
To paraphrase the great Greek Manousakis, "disaster."

Following the reviews here, I had bought the Ahead from the series at the local action market. He likes extremely well, and so I overcame again and successfully my good resolution to buy no more cheap fragrances. Among the last two EdT still available on the shelf was also the Hero.
The first olfactory sample I found disappointing, Altherrenduft in lasch. The second time I found him already interesting, and then I first puzzled, what reminds me of the fragrance.
It's a good memory: my regular sauna in Berlin in the 1990s, the BLUB, unfortunately burned down. Countless infusions with anise, birch, etc. had left their traces in the wood paneling. Perhaps many saunas smell like this, including some of the many I've visited. But it is by no means a typical sauna scent. Nevertheless: In my head cinema the infusion bucket is still in Britz. So the "hero" has all chances to become my spring fragrance 2021.
I find an anise note with some sweet wood and a little freshness. The scent lasts well, evolving not spectacularly, but audibly. This is definitely a serious perfume, much more than one should expect at the price.

One thing in advance: The bottle is blue, and it is also classified here as aquatic-citrus. But he is also a bit oldschool and powdery. An interesting combination that reminds me remotely of Sculpture which I have therefore sorted in my shelf right next to it.
It's the first fragrance I remember buying for myself. I'm surprised that I still remembered the name. Google brought up quite an interesting, way too long here, story of how the fragrance was discontinued by Shulton and then rescued by a fan. I had then out of curiosity and early Christmas "do you remember" quite quickly and inexpensively found this 1995 version of Parfums Bleu on the net and ordered it. The bottle and cap still look like the 1975 version. Here and there is also a 2006 version of Key Sun on the net. Whether this was reformulated, I do not know of course.
If there should be differences from the 1975 Shulton to my 1995 version of Parfums Bleu, they cannot be drastic. I must admit that the fragrance surprised me at the first sniff then. A bad buy? After a few more tests, however, I am certain: this is the Blue Stratos of my earliest youth. The fact that it didn't "click" the first time I smelled it is probably due to the fact that, according to today's smelling habits, I imagine "aquatic-citric" to be something different. Seen in this way, the Blue Stratos has something very independent, somehow fallen out of time - just like the blue Zündapp with which I made my first forays into the world that was still at my feet at the time.

The fourth and for the time being last scent from the display with "test tubes" at the local flour producer. A few words, how I came across the fragrance, you will find my - by the way, first - comment on the "Green Tea" of the series. I must not ruminate here again.
So much in advance: after the "Sweet Vanilla" from the series, the "Exotic Mango" has also remained in use as a perfume. It has what.
(If the perfume is not identical to this one listed under the name "Mango", please let me know.)
This fragrance is also sold in a "test tube" for just under 2 EUR / 15ml.
I know pretty much how mangoes smell: Fruity, a little "rübsig" and peppery. So smells "Exotic Mango" definitely not. It's not even the obligatory peach whisked with mango, but a wild fruit salad, and it may be that there was also a mango in the kitchen when it was prepared.
But that doesn't mean at all that the fragrance smells bad. He just smells different than the name designation can be expected.
Just as with the other tested by me from the series - a development of the fragrance after spraying does not take place. He remains - and that again quite long - at a fragrance: fruit salad without much sugar let alone whipped cream, certainly chemical, but for me not pungent.
It also unfortunately carries the flaw of the bottle. I do not know either, but at least these plastic lids are terrible.